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Culture and tradition — 文化と伝統

Local custom and festival, the crafts — pottery, lacquer, weaving — and the traditional arts. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

きょうど noun

郷土 one's home region

ふうど noun

風土 natural features, climate and culture

かんしゅう noun

慣習 custom, convention

みんぞく noun

民俗 folk customs

さいれい noun

祭礼 religious festival

げいのう noun

芸能 performing arts; entertainment

こうげい noun

工芸 craft, applied art

とうき noun

陶器 pottery, ceramics

しっき noun

漆器 lacquerware

おりもの noun

織物 textiles, woven fabric

さどう noun

茶道 the tea ceremony

かどう noun

華道 flower arrangement

しょどう noun

書道 calligraphy

ぶどう noun

武道 martial arts

すもう noun

相撲 sumo

かぶき noun

歌舞伎 kabuki theatre

らくご noun

落語 rakugo, comic storytelling

はいく noun

俳句 haiku

たんか noun

短歌 tanka (31-syllable poem)

わか noun

和歌 classical Japanese poem

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Vocabulary N2 · set 21 of 75 · 2 / 2 · recall

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Culture and tradition — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

tanka (31-syllable poem)

noun

the tea ceremony

noun

sumo

noun

kabuki theatre

noun

haiku

noun

custom, convention

noun

calligraphy

noun

folk customs

noun

religious festival

noun

pottery, ceramics

noun

2 What does it mean?

落語

華道

和歌

武道

工芸

織物

漆器

郷土

芸能

風土

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